By Mariah Taylor
UT Health Austin and Dell Children’s Medical Center physicians performed the world’s seventh pediatric partial heart transplant.
The surgery was performed June 23 on an 11-month-old baby who was born with a congenital heart defect condition. The baby’s valve between the lower left heart chamber and the main artery did not open fully, according to a July 10 system press release. The 11-hour surgery used valves from a donor heart as a complete transplant. Read more in Becker’s Hospital Review.